Completed in 2019, the project took top honours in the Government Buildings category in this year’s International Architecture Awards.

Construction employment is now 3.5%, or 49,900 workers, ahead of the same period in July 2020, but remains 63,600 workers below pre-pandemic levels recorded in July 2019.

Lafarge is working with Habitat for Humanity on the project, and will donate all the concrete required for the building’s footing, walls and floors.

The media company is expected to occupy more than 85 percent of The Exchange, one of two buildings that make up the state-of-the-art downtown Toronto complex.

A majority of Canadians support a system that would require proof of vaccination to access some non-essential services, a new poll suggests as the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold.